Record: 14-29 Offense: 97 Defense: 101.3 Last 10 games: 2-8 What Vegas Says: Lakers -5.5 Gatinho the Scout: Seeing that the Knicks were playing the Hawks yesterday, I tuned in via “League Pass” to get a glimpse figuring that I would see the better side of this inconsistent Knick team against a club that was [...]

Record: 36-5 (Are you kidding me?) Nov: 11-2 Dec: 13-2 Jan: 12-1 Offense: 99.8 Defense: 90.5 Last 10 games: 10-0 When lightning strikes: Two of their last three losses are to Utah, a long defensive team. If the Lakers have a chance to stay with the Pistons today it will be accomplished on the boards. [...]

I really should be more frustrated with that narrow win over Golden State, but I’m not for two reasons: 1) it’s still a win; 2) I leave on vacation for a week Saturday, so it’s hard to be pissed about anything. The Lakers survived a bad shooting night (45.7% eFG%) and some frustrating defensive lapses [...]

Record: 19-22 (Pythagorean 18-23), 11th seed in the West Record last 10 games: 2-8 Laker record against Warriors: 1-0 Offensive Rating: 106.9 (14th in league) Defensive Rating: 108.3 (20th in league) This is going to be short, I think I’ve spent plenty of time breaking down the Lakers this week. Last time these two hooked [...]

We’ll go through the players in an order selected by me, with little rhyme or reason. Because I can. After the name of the player you will see his PER and his +/- (per 48 minutes), not the end-all-be-all of statistics but they start to paint a picture of contributions. By the way, there is [...]